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| Coalition says negative gearing changes a tax on investment as opposition targets NBN | |
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| 5.38am GMT | |
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| Currently my office is offering sanctuary to the press gallery as they pursue the AFP around Parliament House. pic.twitter.com/YCcaCDDIbW | |
| 5.35am GMT | |
| 05:35 | |
| Update from downstairs. Of sorts. | |
| A brilliantly comical situation: Guards banned everyone from corridors. So @GrahamPerrettMP has offered "sanctuary" to a dozen journos. | |
| 5.30am GMT | |
| 05:30 | |
| We are all hearing the same intelligence, evidently. A press pack has assembled outside the office of Liberal MP Stuart Robert. No police are visible in that corridor. The sergeant’s office, I gather, is attempting move them on. | |
| I stress there are no facts at this point. When there are facts, I’ll share them. | |
| 5.24am GMT | |
| 05:24 | |
| Folks are reporting to us that police are in the building. We’ll check this thoroughly before reporting what we’ve been told. | |
| 5.09am GMT | |
| 05:09 | |
| Hmmm, yes | |
| The prime minister said on Sunday he’d had a long chat over the weekend with John Howard. Howard will be on Malcolm Turnbull’s mind this week because March 2 is the 20th anniversary of the election of the Howard government. Love him, loathe him, feel indifferent about him, John Howard managed to govern for more than a decade – which feels like a beacon of stability in modern political times. Turnbull will want to channel that Howardesque feeling of command and stability as he approaches the election season proper, but on his own terms. | |
| Pure speculation on my part, but the prime minister looks like someone who’s had a big think over this past weekend. After verging quite unsuccessfully into Abbott negativity territory last week, Turnbull is back today to those exciting times. He’s building a second element to his story now, and that’s the threat Labor poses to the exciting times. To cut to the chase here, Turnbull is experimenting with how he can be more negative when his natural reflex as a political character is sunny side up. He’s not a soarer and a snarler like Paul Keating, he’s not the suburban solicitor made good that Howard crafted to perfection, with his track suited power walks, and his speaking to Neil Mitchell on the wireless every Friday morning, he’s not a brawler like Abbott – he’s his own thing. | |
| In order to be credibly negative, his own kind of negative, Turnbull is slowing down his delivery. Labor’s deficiencies are offered up more in sorrow than in anger. It’s just natural and obvious, that he, Turnbull, the innovation man, the entrepreneur, the shape shifter, is the man for the times, the leader who can read the symptoms of the economy sufficiently to see where the traps and trip wires are. He’s trying to set up that story with a little gravitas offensive. | |
| Consider what he said earlier today. | |
| Let me say to you, the central issue this year, this election year, is going to be who is best able to lead Australia in this transition from the mining construction boom to the new economy? | |
| Who is best able to ensure that we promote investment, secure jobs, encourage technology, promote innovation? Who is best able to ensure that the success of this company, CEA, will be followed by the success of many others? Who is best able to open up the markets for our exporters in every industry? | |
| Me, me, me. Successful Malcolm. Winner picking Malcolm. | |
| Bill .. who? | |
| I think this is a stronger pitch than the fear and loathing nonsense last week. But his problems still remain. Until he can sort out his government’s core economic story, trying to flesh out just how you are better than your opponent is harder work. And with a campaign in sight, every attempt Turnbull makes to push forward, Labor will push back. Today Labor added the NBN to its toolbox, trying to paint a picture of a person who talks a good game but ultimately delivers very little. | |
| 4.31am GMT | 4.31am GMT |
| 04:31 | 04:31 |
| Magic Mikearoo has some grand chamber shots from today. Give me a minute and I’ll be back with a short analysis of that session. | Magic Mikearoo has some grand chamber shots from today. Give me a minute and I’ll be back with a short analysis of that session. |
| 4.23am GMT | 4.23am GMT |
| 04:23 | 04:23 |
| Just a quick bit of trivia for politics tragics. Centuries ago, when Tony Smith was press secretary to Peter Costello (before he became an MP and now Speaker) he was famous for furnishing the following formulation to inquisitive journalists. | Just a quick bit of trivia for politics tragics. Centuries ago, when Tony Smith was press secretary to Peter Costello (before he became an MP and now Speaker) he was famous for furnishing the following formulation to inquisitive journalists. |
| Off the record. | Off the record. |
| No comment. | No comment. |
| Not a man of loose lips, our Tony. | Not a man of loose lips, our Tony. |
| 4.16am GMT | 4.16am GMT |
| 04:16 | 04:16 |
| Turnbull has wound up question time. The shadow attorney general Mark Dreyfus wants to know what’s going on with the police. | Turnbull has wound up question time. The shadow attorney general Mark Dreyfus wants to know what’s going on with the police. |
| Speaker Tony Smith tells Dreyfus he doesn’t comment on police matters. He says any queries need to be directed to the police. He says in general terms any search warrants would be executed in accordance with the rules governing privilege. | Speaker Tony Smith tells Dreyfus he doesn’t comment on police matters. He says any queries need to be directed to the police. He says in general terms any search warrants would be executed in accordance with the rules governing privilege. |
| On Sky News (the network that broke the story police were on the trail of an MP), Peter Van Onselen is saying he understands the parliamentary server was accessed last week. He says he believes that was done with presiding officer cooperation. | On Sky News (the network that broke the story police were on the trail of an MP), Peter Van Onselen is saying he understands the parliamentary server was accessed last week. He says he believes that was done with presiding officer cooperation. |
| 4.07am GMT | 4.07am GMT |
| 04:07 | 04:07 |
| The Member for Bowman, Andrew Laming, has a question for the minister for finance about ice. Finance? Wut? Sorry no, this question is for the justice minister, Michael Keenan. | The Member for Bowman, Andrew Laming, has a question for the minister for finance about ice. Finance? Wut? Sorry no, this question is for the justice minister, Michael Keenan. |
| Keenan keeps calm and carries on. | Keenan keeps calm and carries on. |
| 4.05am GMT | 4.05am GMT |
| 04:05 | 04:05 |
| Bill Shorten is back with responsibility and the NBN. Does the prime minister accept the government’s NBN is slow, more costly than Labor’s, and late? | Bill Shorten is back with responsibility and the NBN. Does the prime minister accept the government’s NBN is slow, more costly than Labor’s, and late? |
| Turnbull repeats the ten-fold rollout figure. | Turnbull repeats the ten-fold rollout figure. |
| The prime minister: | The prime minister: |
| The approach we are taking will see [the NBN] completed sooner, at much less cost. The facts speak for themselves. The leader of the opposition can fool himself. We’re living in the real world – and the NBN is getting on with the job. | The approach we are taking will see [the NBN] completed sooner, at much less cost. The facts speak for themselves. The leader of the opposition can fool himself. We’re living in the real world – and the NBN is getting on with the job. |
| 4.00am GMT | 4.00am GMT |
| 04:00 | 04:00 |
| We are back to the prime minister’s failure on the NBN. | We are back to the prime minister’s failure on the NBN. |
| Q: Will the prime minister finally accept responsibility for the mess and the chaos he has caused? | Q: Will the prime minister finally accept responsibility for the mess and the chaos he has caused? |
| No, he will not as it turns out. Turnbull throws the question to the minister for special projects, Paul Fletcher. | No, he will not as it turns out. Turnbull throws the question to the minister for special projects, Paul Fletcher. |
| Manager of opposition business, Tony Burke, wonders how Fletcher can possibly answer that question, whether or not Turnbull takes responsibility. Surely that is a question that only Turnbull can answer? | Manager of opposition business, Tony Burke, wonders how Fletcher can possibly answer that question, whether or not Turnbull takes responsibility. Surely that is a question that only Turnbull can answer? |
| Speaker Smith doesn’t object to Fletcher taking the question. | Speaker Smith doesn’t object to Fletcher taking the question. |
| Fletcher answers. | Fletcher answers. |
| We stand by [the NBN] and are proud of it. | We stand by [the NBN] and are proud of it. |
| 3.53am GMT | 3.53am GMT |
| 03:53 | 03:53 |
| 3.51am GMT | 3.51am GMT |
| 03:51 | 03:51 |
| Now we are onto the risks Labor poses for small businesses at the most exciting time in human history. | Now we are onto the risks Labor poses for small businesses at the most exciting time in human history. |
| 3.50am GMT | 3.50am GMT |
| 03:50 | 03:50 |
| Shadow communications minister Jason Clare wants to know why the NBN is a mess. The prime minister thinks the NBN isn’t a mess. Turnbull thinks since the election the number of premises that are serviceable by the NBN has increased by ten-fold. | Shadow communications minister Jason Clare wants to know why the NBN is a mess. The prime minister thinks the NBN isn’t a mess. Turnbull thinks since the election the number of premises that are serviceable by the NBN has increased by ten-fold. |
| Labor cracks up at ten-fold. | Labor cracks up at ten-fold. |